Abstract
The chapter examines Hobbes’s understanding of law and authority, crucially, the difference between laws of nature and civil law; it criticizes accounts that base obligation on God’s command; and argues that it is not having a common sovereign that makes a community, but their having rules to which they can appeal to–〈M〉the sovereign enforces, but does not create the obligation, and he enforces the law of nature, he does not create it. Moreover, Hobbes sees civil and natural law as mutually supportive.
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